Work and Pensions Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget

Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 15 December 2010.

Oral Evidence

Taken before the Work and Pensions Committee

on Wednesday 20 October 2010

Members present

Miss Anne Begg (Chair)

Harriett Baldwin

Mr Oliver Heald

Karen Bradley

Sajid Javid

Richard Graham

Stephen Lloyd

Kate Green

Shabana Mahmood

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CONTENTS

Examination of Witnesses

Witnesses:Cllr Lib Peck, Lambeth Housing Lead Member,
London Councils, Nigel Minto, Head of Sustainable Communities,
London Councils, and Cllr Mike Haines,Teignbridge
District Council, Deputy Chairman of LGA's Environment and Housing
Board, Local Government Association, gave evidence.

Witnesses:Mr Richard Capie, Director of Policy
and Practice and Mr Sam Lister, Policy and Practice Officer,
Chartered Institute of Housing, Mr Roger Harding, Head
of Policy, Research and Public Affairs, Shelter, and Mr Alex
Fenton, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Housing and
Planning Research, University of Cambridge, gave evidence.